At breakfast one day, I noticed a dead bird on the veranda: he had flown into the window and deaded hisself. Unwisely I pointed it out to the girls. Funny to observe how Kalia's reaction was immediate, but Rebecca's took more time, but welled up out of her after a while. Even now months later, it brings tears to my eyes to see the reverence with which she carries the bird to its grave in a make-shift 'coffin'.

I took my electric jigsaw-cutter with us, and she came up with the idea of trying to reproduce a string puppet that she likes to play with at Pop & Grandmas. She drew up the shapes from memory, and we checked them via Skype.

Elle est très contente et fière du résultat.

Very pleased with the final result (which was designed to be easily unstringled).